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Science! (But the app's a wee bit lacking.)
The reboot of science series Cosmos kicked off over the weekend, and there's already an Android app ready to bring a wealth of related content to your phone. Nestled within are video clips, supplementary reading, high-resolution images, behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, and a neat calendar which condenses the entire lifetime of the universe into 365...

Functional, but utilitarian designs said to increase gloominess and depression
Did you know that apparently, pretty things make us happier?
HTC has announced the resuts of a study that shows well-designed objects make people not only happier, but actually can reduce negative thoughts and feelings by as much as 29 percent. No, I'm not kidding.
HTC contracted the behavioural research agency...

Here's a cool little crowd-sourced project from the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma. (Boomer Sooner!) The "Precipitation Near the Ground" project (aka W-PING) uses reports from civilians (that's you and me) to match against what radar sees. And as noted in the app description, radar doesn't see too well near the ground at long distances, and those snazzy...

Just one more thing to add to the list of what makes Android so awesome. Scientists performing complex calculations often need to book time on a supercomputer to solve problems for their research. The problem with this is that time on a supercomputer has to be scheduled in advance, and it can be expensive. Not only that, but they're not portable, so if the researcher is in a remote location, he...

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